Death on the Stuart Highway – the killing of Ron Marks
This was the first of the many hundreds of roadside memorials that I've seen over the years that concerned a death by misadventure at the hands of another other than by motor-vehicle accident.
At least one good reason why the NT should never be a state…
Gerry Wood only needed to make one deal to maintain Labor in power. If he had supported the CLP there would have been three deals - between Wood and CLP opposition leader Terry Mills, between Mills and Alison Anderson and between Wood and Anderson and the risk of any of those three deals going pear-shaped was substantial.
The Senate, the Alice Springs News and Centrecorp – a “multitude of factual errors and distortions”
As the Alice Springs News says: "a dossier of Alice Springs News reports was a substantial part of the briefing NT Senator Nigel Scullion gave Senator Brandis."
Miliwanga Sandy Interview Part 2: “This is our country…and we shouldn’t be treated like slaves!”
We've lived here longer than anyone - this is our country and we should have the same freedoms, rights as anyone else. Why should we be treated any different from anyone else just because of the colour of our skin and where we live?
Roll up, roll up and watch NT Labor eat itself alive
There is the very real possibility that Alison Anderson could follow Scrymgour's lead and walk - not to the cross-benches - but across the Assembly floor to the CLP - gifting government to the CLP's Terry Mills.
How Scrymgour and homelands might undo NT Labor
Henderson's failures are all his own doing, led by a poor set of polices that attack his electoral heartland and a supine surrender to the Federal government's directions -- but he hasn't been helped by the loose cannons rolling around the deck of what passes for the sinking ship of state in the NT.
The NT Intervention, “Working Future” and the myth of evidence-based policy in the NT
Mel James (ABC Stateline): Alison Anderson, this sounds very much like the policy that Mal Brough was proposing. It's exactly the same isn't it? Alison Anderson, Indigenous Affairs Minister NT Government: Oh look, this has been a policy that's been delivered and, um, developed by the Henderson Labor government. It's got nothing to do with Mal Brough whatsoever.
Great Southern on the Tiwi Islands – Timber, Fear, Intimidation and a great tax dodge
Under the Senate's spotlight are the arrangements between the Tiwi Land Council and Great Southern, the promoter of broad-acre MIS forestry schemes on the islands that have seen vast swathes of virgin tropical savanna transformed into a monocrop of the fast growing Acacia mangium.
NT’s Keystone Cops trash the Finks MC clubhouse
It is a very rich spin indeed that regards three officers resigning and others having their appointments as Police officers terminated as an exemplar of professional conduct likely to instill public confidence in the integrity of the NT Police force.
Outback Stores takes a dump on confidential Centrelink data at Yuendumu
The documents show the Centrelink account balances of many residents of Yuendumu whose welfare payments have been quarantined under the federal indigenous intervention.